Yes I understand the Lap band restricts the size of your Stomach and that is why I suggested smaller meals and more often maybe every hour or so. Most of the time the Doctor should suggest a protein or liquid diet so you get your intake to help you eat the right amount of calories in smaller quantities. I had a friend who had looked at several different kinds of surgeries so that she could lose weight but she passed before they could do anything.

Missilene This book has a section on how to adapt this diet to a vegen or similar diet plans. Depending on how much you have to lose you might get to the point where they can remove the lap band. The way I adapt it is eating smaller meals and more of them like spreading out the meal over a few hours rather than all at one sitting. I have a PT job on Monday and Tuesday and I put my lunch and afternoon snack foods in baggies and eat them during the 5 hours I am at work.

There was a cap though it was not very well presented. The book said if you have over 40 to lose eat the 20-40 and then do it again until you get the above 40 lbs lost. I think it was toward the end of the book but it is great to have it stated again.

I know for me, I found the following statement to be true "Double and triple portions are just way too much food – and because you’re trying to eat all your required items, not enough veggies are making it into your menus."

Luckily I asked the question early on and someone from her camp was very helpful to recommend a cap. So I already pretty much stick to 1.5 - 2 serving sizes for the amount of weight I want to lose, even though the initial formula would have been for more (since there was not a cap)

The extra info on the fat phase was very helpful also.

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